Sentence examples for sinking aircraft from inspiring English sources

Escaping from the sinking aircraft, he and the pilot swam 3 mile to safety.

So when Wolchak was informed minutes later that it was a commercial airliner carrying more than 100 passengers who were possibly still trapped inside the sinking aircraft, she realized the case would be anything but business as usual.

Now that China has developed missiles that can easily sink aircraft carriers, and the United States is responding with tactical plans that would aim to take out such weapons on the Chinese mainland, a minor conflict could result in a major showdown.

It is believed to be close to deploying the world's first "carrier-killer" ballistic missile designed to sink aircraft carriers while they are manoeuvring at sea up to 1,500km offshore, and it is building its own stealth fighter aircraft along with advanced carrier-based aircraft built from Russian designs.

It is believed to be close to deploying the world's first "carrier-killer" ballistic missile, designed to sink aircraft carriers while they are manoeuvring at sea up to 1,500km (930 miles) offshore, and it is building its own stealth fighter aircraft along with advanced carrier-based aircraft built from Russian designs.

After the start of World War II, Portland took part in the Battle of Coral Sea, there rescuing 722 survivors from the sunk aircraft carrier.

* China has acquired two Sovremenny-class destroyers carrying Sunburn antiship missiles capable of sinking an aircraft carrier.

While the ship was sinking, Republican aircraft attacked her.

The Bush legacy here - embraced seamlessly by Barack Obama - is one of simply not paying enough attention either to China's salami-slicing in the South China Sea nor a rapid Chinese military buildup obsessively focused on sinking U.S. aircraft carriers and driving America out of the Western Pacific.

He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1940 and served in the navy, surviving a 1942 Japanese attack that sank the aircraft carrier Lexington in the Coral Sea.

The US has been watching closely as China increases its military capacity - in particular, its development of a so-called "carrier killer" missile, a land-based system which could sink an aircraft carrier from up to 1,800 miles (2,900km) away.